983

VAICE PRECIDENT MD IBRAHIM BHUIYAN

Events

By place

Asia

• Wood carvers paid by China's Song Dynasty completed a carving of the entire Buddhist canon for printing (130,000 total blocks are made).
• The reign of Amir Adhad ad-Dowleh of Buwayhid ended.
• Sharaf ad-Dawla became Amir Buwayhid.
• The Khazar Empire ended.
• Emperor Shengzong of the Liao Dynasty led an expedition against the Zubu.
• One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is finished in 1,000 volumes of 4.7 million written Chinese characters.

Europe

• Otto III became the King of Germany after Otto II died.
• Veronese donation during the diet of Verona. Otto gave the Rheingau to the archbishopric of Mainz.

By topic

Religion

• December – Pope John XIV becomes the 136th pope after Pope Benedict VII died.

Births

• Wulfnoth Cild
• Odo II, Count of Blois

Deaths

• 'Adud al-Daula
• Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Pope Benedict VII
• Mu'ayyad al-Daula
• Patriarch Anthony III of Constantinople